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(No Model.)

A. WAGNER. SWIVELv Loom.

No. 473,563. Patented Apr. '26, ma.

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AUGUST VAGNER, OF PHILADELPHIA,PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO SCHAUM (la UHLINGER, OF SAME PLACE.

SWIVEL-LOOM.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 473,563, dated April 26, 1892.

Application led May 18, 1891.

To all whom, it 17m/y concern:

Be it known thatl, AUGUST WAGNER, ofthe city and county of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Swivel-Looms, of which the following is a true and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specication. l

My invention relates to the construction of the blocks or carriers in which swivel-shuttles are carried and which are attached in series to a shuttle-carrying beam or batten in swivel-looms-such, for instance, as that shown and described in the patent to Joseph lVads# worth, No. 338,891, of March 30, 1886.

The object of my present invention is to provide an improved shuttle-carrying block for such machines. In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a side elevation of a portion of a loom, showing the position, with regard to the shed and the reed, of the swivel-shuttles and the beam which carries them. Fig. 2 is a cross-sectional view through my improved shuttle-carrying block, the shuttle, and the beam to which it is attached, taken throughone of the tubes K; Fig. 3, a cross-sectional view taken on the line l 2 of Fig. 2; Fig. 4, a cross-sectional view taken on the line 3 4. of Fig. 2.

A is the frame of the loom; B, the lay; C, the warp-beamg D, the cloth-roll; E, the shed g F, the reed; G, the swivel-hatten beam, or beam to which the shuttle-carrying blocks are attached. This beam in practice is intermittently moved upward and downward or upward, downward, and sidewise, as described in the `Wadsworth patent mentioned above. In the present case I have not thought it necessary to illustrate the mechanism for actuating this beam, as it forms no part of the present invention. n

H is the shuttle-carrying block, formed and adapted to carry a horizontal or substantially horizontal shuttle. It is made up of two parts-to wit, the part H', the face of which is provided with circular recesses h h and the back of which is formed 4with a downwardlyextending flange h2, from the end of which extends a horizontal flange h3, said flange extending to or substantially to the level of the Serial No. 393,218. (No model.)

face of part Il and inclosing the groove h6, at the back of which is formed the upwardlyeXtending comm unieating groove 71.4. The said part H is made from a single piecebt' boxwood or similar material, and the remaining part of the shuttle-carrying block consists of the piece H2, adapted to cover the face of the part H and having in it recesses h', corresponding and adapted to register with recesses h of the part I'I.

J J are pinions which are. placed in the chambers made up of the adjacent recesses h and h and the teeth of which extend above the top of the block and down into the groove h6. As shown, the pinions are placed on hollow tubes K, which extend through the parts H and H2, and the said parts are held together by screws O, the heads of which rest against the face of the part H2 and the threaded ends of which screw into the clamps L, which extend along the back of the part H The blocks are secured to the beam G by means of clamps L, which clamps are iirmly secured to the backs of the blocks and are provided with an upward extensiomwhich lies against the side of beam G and'is secured to it by screws or similar devices.

71,5, Fig. 2, is a feather extending into registering grooves in the block H and beam G, the use of which is simply to properly align the blocks with the beam.

I is a rack movable in the slot in beam G, the teeth of which rack engage the projecting teeth of the pinions J.

M is the shuttle, which is provided with an extension M M2, which fits neatly in the grooves h6 h4, and in the extension M is formed a rack end, which is engaged by the teeth of the wheels J. The mode in which the movements of the rack I throws the shuttle M from one carrying-block to the one adjacent is familiar and need not be further described.

By the above-described constructionof the blocks which carry the shuttles it will be seen that each one is independent of the others attached to the beam and is secured together independently-that is to say, its parts are attached together by means independent of those'which attach the whole block to the beam-and that each block can be separately removed from the beam by simply detaching IOO the clamp L, which extends u-p alongside of the beam in a position where it can readily be reached and easily attached and detached. In addition to these features the construction of the shuttle-carrying block of the two peculiarly-formed pieces I-I and H2 and the spurwheels secured between them is at once simple, cheap, and durable.

The device illustrated in the drawings for attaching two or more parts making up a shuttle-carrying block together is, I believe, new with me, but is not specifically claimed in this case for the reason that it forms in part the subject-matter of another application for Letters Patent led by me May 1S, 1891, Serial No. 393,217.

It will of course be obvious that the whole block H may be made of a single piece of Wood and the grooves or recesses h h cut through the solid material, and equally ot' course said recesses may be formed entirelyin either part H or H2 instead of partlyin each. The construction illustrated in these respects is given simply7 as what I consider best, and, save where expressly limited in claims, must not be understood to relate to the specic arrangement Y shown.

I claim as new, and desire to secure by Let` ters Patent, is-

l. The independent shuttle-carrying blocks formed with downwardly-extending llanges 712 and horizontal flanges h3, said ianges being vmade integral with the blocks and inclosing the L -shaped recesses h4 h6, and said blocks having also vertical recesses formed in their fronts, in combination with pinions J, jour,- naled in the vertical recesses and having their teeth extending into groove 71,6 and above the top ofv the block.

2. The shuttle-block H, consisting of a part H', having a downwardly-extendin g flange h2, with a horizontal flange h3 extending from its bottom and inclosing groove h6. a groove Ah4 at the back of groove h6, andv recesses h in its front face to receive pinions J, said part being formed of one piece, in combination with a face-plate H2, grooves or recesses h h being formed between'parts H I-I2 and pinions secured in said recesses h h and extending into groove h6, all substantially as and for the purpose specified.

AUGUST WAGNER.

W'itnesses:

LEWIS R. DICK, JOSHUA MATLACK, Jr. 

